Changing Players Minds

generate 5 new game ideas that explore changing players minds about … (climate change, energy, politics, etc.)

  1. GoFundThat – Each player, similar to Monopoly, is given an amount of money to start the game. Rounding the board, each spot is a designated government funded organization that the players have to choose to or choose not to invest in. If you choose to invest, you take the card that aligns with that spot. Once your money runs out, you flip your cards and see your fate. The point of the game is to show that politically not everyone can get what they want and you can’t make everyone happy, but that there ARE certain things you as the government should invest in in order to prevent detrimental things such as unions forming and other revolts from the population.
  2. Journey to Rebuild – a video game journey with multiple paths, inspired by story games such as uncharted, the last of us or others where there are many cinematic scenes, but also many puzzle or interactive parts. In this game the goal is to restore the worlds environment after recent natural disasters. You are Rory, a recent college graduate who studied environmental science, trying to get back to your family across the country. Along the way, you face multiple challenges including flooding, wildlife, and cities destroyed. As Rory, you have to complete the tasks to fix the environment. You must complete the tasks in a certain order or else you fail and must restart from the last checkpoint. However, you may pick the direction you want to go in at the start, with each of the paths leading you to different challenges.
  3. Daily Climate – similar to wordle, Daily Climate is an app on your phone that once a day gives you a word to figure out. What makes this different to wordle is that once you get it, it gives you a definition and some ways to improve your environmental friendliness.
  4. Voter – similar to temple run or pepsiman, you are a voter running through the city, dodging obstacles to reach your destination, voting. Each levels gets faster and faster, starting with a low level voting position, going all the way up to world leaders. When you level up, you can customize your character and show your friends how far you’ve come, all meanwhile spreading the word to vote.
  5. Planter – a first person shooter game, you are shooting liquid at monster weeds to kill them and plant fresh flowers. Similar to changing between guns, you can shoot the liquid to kill monster weeds and then switch to your planter tool to plant seeds.